doc.: IEEE / Submission July 2013 Juho Pirskanen, Renesas Mobile CorporationSlide 1 Potential approach to improve WLAN BSS edge performance Date: Authors:

doc.: IEEE / Submission Abstract This presentation presents potential solution to improve BSS edge performance in low and medium SNR condition –High level scheme –Simulation results –Discussion. Slide 2Juho Pirskanen, Renesas Mobile Corporation July 2013

doc.: IEEE / Submission In previous presentations have discussed targets for HEW work –Fairness between BSS center and BSS edge users. –Improved BSS edge performance. Additionally document presented significant issues with current standard and implementations based on real network measurements: –Link adaptation not able to follow channel conditions –Extremely high number of re-transmissions Additionally to be able to increase density of the networks it is essential to be able to work effectively at low SNR regions. –For frequency re-use one networks, operation at zero SNR level is needed. Motivation July 2013 Juho Pirskanen, Renesas Mobile CorporationSlide 3

doc.: IEEE / Submission Currently no separation in ARQ protocol between: –CRC Decoding error due to too low SNR level to decode transmitted packet correctly. –CRC decoding error due to collision.  Assumes always that collision occurred and increases the backoff.  TXOP can support fast packet retransmission with Block ACK, but different transmissions of same data packet are fully independent. When link is suffering from high system load Collisions affect the achieved BLER and link adaptation drives down used MCS to maintain BLER target. Effect can be somewhat compensated but it will reduce link adaptation capability to follow channel dynamics. Current ARQ protocol March 2013 Juho Pirskanen, Renesas Mobile CorporationSlide 4

doc.: IEEE / Submission PHY Header Robustness Detection of PHY header can be done at low SNR –Several dB difference to small packet –Longer packets would suffer even more. July 2013 Slide 5Juho Pirskanen, Renesas Mobile Corporation

doc.: IEEE / Submission To get HARQ operating receivers need to know which packets –Are indented for it –Which packets should be combined together. Introducing necessary address fields to a new HARQ header part together with MCS indication and control field CRC –Other fields can be included depending on HARQ scheme. Transmitted as part of PHY-header with robust manner –We can actually re-use existing PHY header SIG fields for Control header Actual data part transmitted with higher MCS decided by the link adaptation protected with MAC packet FCS –Control header defines who is the transmitter and intended receiver and how to receive data part. HARQ to IEEE July 2013 Juho Pirskanen, Renesas Mobile CorporationSlide 6 Legacy PHY header part HARQ header CRCMAC SDUFCSMAC header Example packet format

doc.: IEEE / Submission Intended Receiver of the packet –Send ACK frame when both control part CRC and data part FCS decoded correctly ACK can re-use current ACK frame –Send NACK frame when control part CRC received correctly but data part CRC fails NACK frame can re-use current ACK frame with minor modifications Transmitter retransmits the packet without collision avoidance – Looks like packet segmentation procedure for other STAs –Send nothing when control part CRC fails – fall backs to normal ARQ operation with collision avoidance No increase of residual HARQ BLER due to control part failures –Combine soft bits of different transmissions before decoding Other receivers can filter the packet from PHY header. HARQ Receiver Operation July 2013 Juho Pirskanen, Renesas Mobile CorporationSlide 7

doc.: IEEE / Submission After receiving NACK Frame –Retransmission after SIFS, as NACK can keep channel reserved. –Reduced latency with fast re-transmission. –Reduced buffering in receiver. Coding chain between transmissions and re-transmission can be very similar –Sifting data in frequency domain is a simple way to provide frequency diversity. –Used in following simulation results. Different options could be considered –Data part could be kept self-decodable. –Different parity bits could be transmitted to provide extra coding gain. HARQ Re-transmission July 2013 Juho Pirskanen, Renesas Mobile CorporationSlide 8

doc.: IEEE / Submission Previous slides presented HARQ operation in case of single frame, –Utilized by all unicast management, control and individual data frames. In case of TXOP –Multiple data frames would be transmitted before Block ACK. –Block Ack frame has capability indicate missing frames which could be re-transmitted in HARQ manner. –Additionally block ack request, Block ack could benefit from HARQ re-transmissions introducing extra robustness to TXOP. –Re-transmission can happen inside same TXOP, next TXOP or existing TXOP could be extended. TXOP with HARQ July 2013 Juho Pirskanen, Renesas Mobile CorporationSlide 9

doc.: IEEE / Submission Simulation Results Single link, single packet of 2048bytes, CW = 32, No collisions July 2013 Slide 10Juho Pirskanen, Renesas Mobile Corporation

doc.: IEEE / Submission Average Gain Single link, single packet of 2048bytes, CW = 32, no collisions Significant gain at 3dB area. –Higher gain for short CP in difficult channel. At 6dB area link adaptation works better and reduces the gain around 5% –Only 10% of packets being re- transmitted Our simulations show high gain when larger CW values are used –Penalty of contention becomes larger. In real system the channel would be many times reserved at re- transmission –Baseline throughput would be lower. –Higher relative HARQ. July 2013 Slide 11Juho Pirskanen, Renesas Mobile Corporation

doc.: IEEE / Submission Hybrid ARQ can provide significant gains in throughput in low SNR conditions resulting improved BSS edge data rates: –PHY header detection will become limiting factor. –Decoding error due to low SNR is not penalized Reduced latency: –Higher average data rate seen by higher protocol layers –Fast retransmission without contention In higher SNR scenarios the throughput gain is less significant, –Improved robustness to time-varying interference –Fast recovery from link adaptation error. –Wider utilization of short CP. –Receiver may decide to decode re-transmission independently and not use combining. Next steps: –Verify system level gains in HEW simulation scenarios –Consider as one technical option for future HEW work. Conclusion July 2013 Juho Pirskanen, Renesas Mobile CorporationSlide 12

doc.: IEEE / Submission Annex: Simulation parameters July 2013 Slide 13Juho Pirskanen, Renesas Mobile Corporation ParameterValue Channel ModelB/D/F Carrier Frequency2.4GHz Channel bandwidth40 MHz Channel estimationLMMSE Equalization (SIMO)MRC Equalization (MIMO)LMMSE Channel codeConvolutional code, number of codecs can vary Tx modesSTBC Phase noise802.11n spec. [2] Timing offsetEstimated based on STF,LTF and VHT-LTF (integer number of samples) Frequency offsetEstimated based on STF and pilot carriers (Uniform +- 20ppm) Power amplifier802.11n spec (Rapp, p=3) IBO8 dB (very close to 8 dB OBO) Mobile speed0 km/h (environment “velocity” km/h) Antenna arrayULA with distance between antennas is λ/2 AGCAssumes L-STF location known. Similar performance probably achievable with simple STF correlator for low SNR and power ramp detector for high SNR. Noise varianceEstimated based on null carriers (except DC) of non-VHT portion

doc.: IEEE / Submission Bandwidth 40MHz AP/STA have 2 antenna's SU-MIMO 1 stream (STBC) For each SNR point 100 fast-fade-drops (FFD) generated, with 100 MSDU transmission per FFD –100 MSDUs correspond roughly to 1.6 Mb data burst Simulation per FFD terminated if 100 MSDUs successfully transmitted OR 10 MSDU transmission failures per FFD detected –We have used maximum number of 7 retransmissions for AP ARQ OR less if 80ms time delay exceeded MSDU size 2048 Bytes Non-idealities as in IEEE reference comparison set Annex: Simulation parameters July 2013 Juho Pirskanen, Renesas Mobile CorporationSlide 14